Courtesy of GoCobbers.com, Release: October 29, 2008

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The Concordia men’s cross country team will enter the 2008 MIAC Championship Meet after one of the most successful seasons in recent history. The Cobbers are coming off their first team title in over 15 years and their top runner has won three straight races entering the conference championship.

Concordia won the Crown College Invite on Oct. 18 to capture their first multi-meet championship since head coach Garrick Larson took control of the program in 1997. At the Crown Invite, Concordia placed seven runners in the top 15 of the race. Sophomore Tom Sederquist (Moorhead, Minn.) earned the individual title at the meet and has now won three straight races. Sederquist started his run to success at the UND Invite and then went on to win the Jimmie Invitational hosted by Jamestown College before finishing off his trifecta of wins at the Crown meet. Sederquist was the first Cobber to win a multi-team race since 1991 when Jason Trichler won the MIAC Championship.

Sederquist will not be a one-person team at the MIAC Meet. Concordia has had several other solid performances turned in by their No.2, 3 and 4 runners. Sophomore Michael Dunn (Fargo, N.D./Oak Grove HS) has established himself as the team’s No.2 athlete. He has had a breakout season that started at the Black Hills Invite on Sept. 13 and since then has posted three straight top 20 finishes. Like Dunn, Mike Reponen (Jr., Baxter, Minn./Brainerd HS) has also had a coming out party in 2008. He has back-to-back top 12 finishes entering the conference meet. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the entire conference has been sophomore Nelson Godbolt (Whitehall, Mont.) who was not on the team to start the year and only joined the squad after being discovered in a physical education class. Godbolt has only run in two meets and has a pair of top 20 finishes. He is coming off an eighth-place finish at the Crown Invite.

Concordia will be hoping to finish off the 2008 season in the same fashion they have posted successful results from the first meet of the year.

2007 MIAC Meet Team Results

1. St John's - 49
2. Carleton - 63
3. Hamline - 109
4. St Olaf - 119
5. Gustavus - 134
6. Bethel - 138
7. St Thomas - 148
8. Macalester - 161
9. Augsburg - 251
10. St Mary's - 282
11. Concordia - 318

2007 MIAC Meet Cobber Results

11. Concordia - 318 (29:07.41 2:25:37.05)
1 - 48 - Tom Sederquist - 27:33.60
2 - 65 - Matt Mehr - 29:16.70
3 - 66 - Dustin Weege - 29:17.35
4 - 68 - Paul Lillehaugen - 29:32.60
5 - 71 - Josh Ydstie - 29:56.80
6 - ( 72) - Eric Juven - 30:05.40
7 - ( 73) - Mike Reponen - 30:09.70